KEVIN KILROY
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KEVIN KILROY, MFA

As a 14-year educator experienced with a range of progressive institutions and diverse learners, I aim to utilize my education expertise and authenticity in my field to cultivate lifetime learners with a passion for literature and creative writing. As a published novelist, poet, playwright, and co-founder of several literary presses, I am self-motivated, organized, and in touch with the publishing industry. In the classroom I am confident in my subject while always enlivening the material through my passion. I connect with students’ lives, interests, and most importantly, their educational needs. I work to tie in their efforts with a larger story—I work to make their learning meaningful. I am looking to find a progressive, independent school to call home. 

EDUCATION
Naropa University
MFA in Writing & Poetics                                                                                                               2005
Critical Dissertation: “Radiophonically Yours: The Possibilities of Radio Art”
  • At this Buddhist school founded by Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman, I learned my most important lesson and my most significant artistic practice. From my mentor, Laird Hunt, I learned how to approach every text, artwork, and human with an openness that encourages it to be itself. From my Contemplative Poetics course, I learned how to integrate meditation into my writing practice. I bring both of these skills with me to the classroom.
University of Kansas 
BA in Philosophy                                                                                                                            2001            
Areas of Concentration: Literature, Architecture, Urban Studies

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Kansas City Art Institute
Lecturer – First-year Writing, Creative Writing, The Beat Generation,                                2016 – current
               History of Thought I & II                                                                           
  • Design progressive curriculum and teach writing, literature, and philosophy courses customized to the learning and education experiences that best suit artists.
  • Teach creative writing to high schoolers (2 years) through the Pre-College Art Lab. 
The Barstow School                                                                                             
Social Sciences and Higher Learning Consortium Faculty – Ancient World History,        2014 – 2018
       AP Human Geography, AP Psychology, Yearbook
  • Designed progressive curriculum and teach social science courses in-house and online.
  • Promoted to Freshmen Dean, working one-on-one with students and families to guide and serve their educational experience.                                                                                                  
Tribeca Flashpoint College 
Faculty – Creative Writing, Composition, Humanities Survey                                               2008 – 2015
  • Recognized for leadership, organizational skills with promotion from adjunct to fulltime Professor and Coordinator of the Humanities Department at this hands-on school offering associates and bachelors degrees in media arts/digital media fields. 
  • Planned and implemented curriculum changes, managed team of adjuncts, chaired committees, oversaw budget and initiated interdepartmental efforts.
  • Designed humanities classes examining the intersections of art, culture, and urbanity in Chicago. 
Columbia College Chicago
Lecturer – Beat Literature, Introduction to Literature, Frist Year Writing,                   2007 – 2011
                     New Millennium Studies
  • Taught English to high schoolers for two years in the BRIDGE program.
  • Taught innovative Writing & Rhetoric curriculum, engaging students in ethnography.  
  • Studied pedagogy with the Center for Innovation in Teaching Excellence. 
Malcom X City College
Lecturer – Composition                                                                                                      2006 – 2010
  • Coordinated assessment of learning as the Exit Exam Coordinator                              
Front Range Community College 
Lecturer – Composition                                                                                                     2006
 
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
The Barstow School
Freshmen Dean                                                                                                                   2017 – 2018
Character Education Committee                                                                                      2018
Yearbook Advisor                                                                                                                2015 – 2018
Club Advisor (multiple)                                                                                                      2015 – 2018 
Tribeca Flashpoint College 
Core Studies Curriculum Development (from school’s inception)                            2008 - 2015
Humanities Department Chair                                                                                         2012 – 2014
Curriculum Committee                                                                                                     2013 – 2014
Writing Across the Curriculum Chair                                                                              2012 – 2013
Literary Arts Journal Advisor                                                                                            2011 – 2013 
Malcom X City College
Exit Exam Coordinator                                                                                                      2010 – 2011
Columbia College Chicago
Campus Anti-war Network (CAN) Advisor                                                                    2008 – 2010
 
RELATED EXPERIENCE(SELECTED)
Pembroke Hill Upper School 
Capstone Project Mentor                                                                                                    2019 – current 
  • Mentor Senior on their capstone project investigating adventure and firsthand experience through critical research and creative writing.
  • Read, workshop, and advise on his creative manuscript—the culmination of his project. 
Académie Lafayette Dragons                                                                                     
Coach                                                                                                                                  2018 – current
  • Facilitate and coach 2nd grade girls soccer, instilling confidence, fitness, skills, and positive life lessons. 
Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award
Fiction Judge                                                                                                                   2014 – current 
  • Read, discuss, and select for this prestigious literary award. 
The Writers Place 
Board Member                                                                                                                 2016
Chicago’s Annual Printers’ Ball 
Small Press Curator                                                                                                       2013–2015
  • Designed, procured, and presented an array of journals, books, and ephemera from literary presses spanning across the country. 
Another Chicago Magazine
Assistant Fiction Editor                                                                                                2012 – 2014 
  • Read submissions and selected fiction for this established Chicago literary journal. 
Requited Journal
Drama Editor                                                                                                                  2009 – 2011
  • Co-created journal and edited the drama section. 
Black Lodge Press
Editor & Co-creator                                                                                                       2005 – 2010
  • Founded and developed small press business to publish fiction and poetry; work included discovering manuscripts, editing, design, fundraising, marketing, distributing, promoting.
 
STUDIO RESIDENCIES
Charlotte Street Foundation Artist in Residence| Kansas City, Missouri         2018 –2019
825 Studios| Kansas City, Missouri                                                                           2017  
Madi’s Lingerie| Kansas City, Missouri                                                                     2016 
The Writers Workspace| Chicago, Illinois                                                               2015 
Tigermen Den Artist in Residence| New Orleans, Louisiana                              2015             
The Northwest Tower| Chicago, Illinois                                                                  2011 – 2013
 
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS(SELECTED)
The Monadnock                                                               poems
manuscript
Hypnosis in the Unbuilt City                                          triptych novel
manuscript
Judith Beheading Holofernes                                        novel          
manuscript                       
Dead Ends or Laughing Gas                                          poems
Spuyten Duyvil                                                                                                            2017
“For Joanne Kyger,” “Alien-laced”                                  poems
Dispatch Editions                                                                                                        2017
“The Event of Rouen”                                                      poem
Masque & Spectacle                                                                                                  2017
The Escapees                                                                  novella
Spuyten Duyvil                                                                                                           2016
“Humboldt Park”                                                              story
Akashic Books                                                                                                            2016
The Escapees                                                                   reading
Blood Jet| New Orleans                                                                                            2016
Laird Hunt’s Neverhome                                                 interview
Chicago Humanities Festival                                                                                  2016
“The Art of the Short Story”                                            panel
Printer’s Row Lit Fest                                                                                               2015            
“Patron Saint”                                                                    reading
Café Ipsento                                                                                                             2013
“Stan”                                                                                 story
Poets and Artists: Chicago Issue                                                                         2012
“Tribute to Akilah Oliver”                                                 reading
Outer Space Studio                                                                                                2011
“For Andrew Peterson”                                                    reading
Red Rover Reading Series                                                                                     2011
“Sherlock Holmes, my Favorite Drug User”                 essay
Philosophy and Sherlock Holmes | Open Court Books                                  2011
“Preface to the Factory of Nychthemeron”                  poem
Onedit                                                                                                                       2010
“Ginsberg’s New Left Poetics”                                       panel
Poetry Unfulfilled | University of Chicago                                                        2010
“1781”                                                                                  story
Fact-Simile                                                                                                              2009
“The Mysteries of Transportation”                                 interview
Hot Whiskey Magazine                                                                                        2008
“Kerouac’s Spontaneous Narration in Pull My Daisy”  panel     
Beat Studies Symposium | Columbia College Chicago                               2008
The Silence of Malachi Ritscher                                    play
Theatre 5.2.1.                                                                                                          2007 five-week run
“Four Buildings on Mardou Street”                               poetry chapbook
Black Lodge Press                                                                                                2006

GALLERY SHOWS
“Two Histories of the World”                                          collaboration
Hyde Park Art Center| Chicago                                                                           2012
“Fusion 2”                                                                           collaboration
Square Deal Gallery| Denver                                                                               2008

CONFERENCES
Hybrid Learning Consortium                                                                                2016 & 2017
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)                                        2009 & 2012
Chicago Humanities Festival                                                                                 2009 – 2013 & 2016

LANGUAGES
English–native language
Spanish–speak, read, and write with basic competence


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